semiformal
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˌsɛmɪˈfɔːml/
美 /ˌsɛˌmaɪˈfɔrm(ə)l/|/ˌsɛmiˈfɔrm(ə)l/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A social event in which one is expected to dress in semiformal wear.
— Bright-colored flyers decorated battered lockers, telling everyone to join the debate team, try out for the school play, and not to miss the fall semiformal this Friday. I wondered what a "semiformal" consisted of at a public school, not that I'd bothered to ask anyone.
形容词 adj.
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Somewhat formal.
— The HLA defines the rules of interoperability, a semiformal methodology for specifying simulation and federation object classes, and the interface specification that is a precise specification of the functional actions that a simulation may invoke.
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Of clothing: having a level of formality between that of informal and formal wear.
— Suits have largely replaced guayabera shirts as business and semiformal wear for middle and upper-class Panamanian men, made practical by the widespread use of air-conditioning in the cities.
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Of an event: having a semiformal dress code.
— The skirt was way too short, at least shorter than she preferred. It left exposed a good eight inches between her knee and thigh. But what choice did she really have? Casual cropped pants were hardly appropriate attire for a semiformal event.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From semi- + formal.
词源 2
From semi- + formal.
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